Media

Telemundo announced its NTI results for the month of August 2008. According to Nielsen Media Research data, Telemundo averaged 600,000 Adults 18-49 with a 20% share of the viewers watching the three major Spanish-language broadcast networks in Monday through Friday prime, increasing +8% in delivery (555,000) compared to last year and the only Spanish-language network to gain double-digit growth compared to last month, +14% (526,000). This delivery makes August 2008 the strongest August Telemundo performance in NTI history.

Maya Entertainment will distribute Academy Award and Golden Globe nominee Luis Mandoki’s highly controversial documentary FRAUDE MEXICO 2006 The film opens in Los Angeles, Denver and Phoenix on October 10. The film had a bumpy ride to the screen.

Univision Communications Inc. has selected the MediaOcean sales system to manage its national sales and to transact business electronically.

JupiterResearch has found that an increasing number of retailers are using social media to target teens and young adults during the 2008 back-to-school shopping season. As a result, social media has emerged as an important marketing platform as many retailers use the popularity of social networking sites like Facebook to carry-out their marketing campaigns.

Different ways of counting users yield different results.

Five of the world’s 10 largest cities are located in the fast-growing economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China (the so-called BRIC countries), along with four of the five top markets for new mobile subscribers.

Communispace announced the findings of their proprietary research on Hispanic behavior in Spanish-speaking private online communities. This original research revealed a number of trends that validate the effectiveness of using online mediums such as communities and social networks to reach Hispanic audiences. The research also offers strategic guidance for doing so more effectively.